VTPMML
UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA
Laboratory for Mathematical Modelling
of Environmental and Technological Processes

A. Chudnovsky

Physical Modelling of 3D Melts Mixing for Electrometallurgical Aggregates


Abstract

We study the melt mixing in the bath of electro-aggregates and the mixing control system. For this we use physical modelling of electro-vortex flows in conductive, viscous, incompressible liquid. In the article we describe: the task of the modelling; toroidal vortex as a base electro-vortex flow; the interaction of vortexes under two (and more) top electrodes; the mixing in the 3-phases EAF (electrical arc furnace) in comparison to the next generation DC EAF with built-in bottom electrodes; the flow structure in the bath with thin liquid layer and submerged electrodes; some other tasks. In many cases the flow structure can be estimated by approximating the electromagnetic forces field. For some nonlinear, nonstationary effects, like the localization of flow or large-scale 3D auto-oscillations, the physical modelling is the only research method. The results of modelling where confirmed and applied in real technologies.

Full paper



Proceedings of the VIII International Scientific Colloquim "Modelling for Materials Processing", Riga, Latvia, (2017), pp. 251-258.

https://doi.org/10.22364/mmp2017.41